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I had set this up a while ago on a different computer, but I can't get it running now. I've followed the directions at http://pigtail.net/LRP/printsrv/cygwin-sshd.html and I'm getting the following error.

Gulshan@GSJK-PC ~
$ cygrunsrv -S sshd
cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: StartService:  Win32 error 1069:
The service did not start due to a logon failure.

I don't know where to start troubleshooting this error... I've ran Cygwin with admin privileges every time I installed it and when I run the cygrunsrv or net start commands.

net start sshd doesn't work either.

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What version of windows are you running now and what version of windows where you running when it worked? – Nifle Oct 2 '11 at 9:54
@Nifle Windows 7 now, and I believe XP worked. – gsingh2011 Oct 3 '11 at 2:47
I have no real insight but have you tried starting the cygwin shell as administrator? – Nifle Oct 3 '11 at 10:55
@Yes, that was included in the question. – gsingh2011 Oct 4 '11 at 2:50
No, you said that you ran as administrator when you installed it. – Nifle Oct 4 '11 at 7:57

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Try the ssh-host-config command in a Cygwin shell. That sets up the privsep user, and the host keys, etc. I just set Cygwin ssh up on Windows 2008 R2, and once I did this, it worked for me.

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Yea, I did that. It gave me a couple warnings, but they seem to be common warnings. No luck. – gsingh2011 Oct 6 '11 at 1:28
Did you start the server by typing net start sshd? If that fails, check the server log in /var/log/sshd.log. I've found helpful error messages in there. – Fran May 16 '12 at 17:51

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